Python 2 times slower than Perl

[John J. Lee]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Rob Andrews wrote:

> Gilles Lenfant wrote:
> >
> > Seriously, compare 2 languages with really useful features (Genrate PDF
> > report, extract XML data...).
> > You can find useless stuffs that run much faster in Python than in Perl.
> >
>
> I'd love to see some comparisons in which people who are good at their
> respective languages are given the same task considered reasonably
> programmable in each of the given languages.
[...]

may be of interest:

http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/jh.twistd/python/moin.cgi/IcfpPythonTeam


John